The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution. Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that is embedded in American history and has helped shaped its culture. Features: Contextualizing introductions from Pre- and Early Colonial Literature to Early American Romanticism Over 70 historical images In-depth biographies of each author Instructional Design, including Reading and Review Questions
Type of Material:
Open (Access) Textbook
Primary Source Reader
Recommended Uses:
In class, homework, individual, team, lecture, life-long learning
Technical Requirements:
Browser, Adobe Reader
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Understand North American history, trade, ‘first encounters,’ and culture through primary sources.
Target Student Population:
College General Ed, College Lower Division
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
none
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Nicely writeen
Concerns:
diverse voices in early American literature - few voices of Amer. lit: Pilgram's Progress, Dickens, Twain, Hawthprne, Lincoln, etc
Needs more graphs and tables
Minimal inclusion of Spanish and French sources post-1600.
Primary sources post-1750 are all from North American writers and thinkers.
Contextualization of each primary source or grouping of sources would be useful. NOTE: readings and reference questions are interspersed within units.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Falls short
Concerns:
diverse voices in early American literature - few voices of Amer. lit: Dickens, Twain, Hawthprne, Lincoln, etc
Needs more graphs and tables
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Creative Commons:
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